Security and Technology

PassTrust – A Ruby-Based Tool That Converts A Simple Passphrase Into A Secure Password

Ruby-based tool which allows you to have secure passwords that you can use anywhere, only by remembering simple passphrases.

PassTrust is able to convert any simple string into a secure password between 16 and 64 characters. This allows you to have easy-to-remember passphrases but strong & secure passwords.

PassTrust is not a password manager, it’s a generator. It uses a variety of hashing algorithms to create your password, and the process is not reversible. (So nobody will know what your passphrase was unless it was really easy to begin with)

The generated passwords are very hard to brute-force, especially on the longer password settings.

If you have the clipboard gem installed, you can use the clipboard options. When you pass the -c flag, the generated password will be copied to your clipboard. It will then be replaced with a fake one when the timer reaches zero.

$ passtrust -cPassword will be 16 characters longEnter passphrase: [something]Your generated password is: [something]Password has been copied to your clipboard.Text in clipboard will be replaced with a fake after timer.The screen will clear in 10 seconds.

If you don’t want to think of a passphrase, passtrust can generate a random passphrase as well.